Dagger-knife with sheath

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Description

bronze with patina, elaborate handle, partly open worked sheath, min. dam., slight traces of usage and abrasion;
in Adamawa can be found beautifully designed knives with bronze plate cast handles and thin, cast metal sheaths which are supposed to resemble leatherwork.

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Comparing literature

Fischer, Werner & Manfred A. Zirngibl, Afrikanische Waffen, Passau 1978, p. 33, ill. 40

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